1893 Map of Tarrytown

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The Hudson River dominates this nineteenth-century survey, dividing the landscape at the wide Tappan Sea and Haverstraw Bay. On the eastern shore, the infrastructure of New York's water supply is clearly delineated by the Croton Aqueduct and New Croton Aqueduct as they snake southward from the Croton Dam. This era of the Lower Hudson Valley is defined by a dense rail network, with the West Shore Railroad tracing the base of cliffs like Verdrietege Hook while the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad hugs the eastern riverbank through Ossining.